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No Textbooks, Please: Students as Content Authors
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Mobiles and the web support a radical shift in pedagogy. Currently, our teaching sees knowledge as an object and learning as the transfer of that object from one person to another. Even our language reflects this: we say “I have some knowledge.” John Seely Brown, a researcher specializing in the organizational impact of technology, argues that that model is being replaced by one where knowledge is socially constructed and learning is a process of coming to understand. We need a new methodology to support this new pedagogy. This session presents the "field school model" developed during a year of traveling overseas with a group of international Grade 9 students. It's distinguished by the way it asks students--not teachers--to curate and catalogue the content they themselves gather. Students must source, represent and qualify data even if when they aren’t sure just how it might be applied or what problem it might solve. They use the curated data to find and solve real world problems.
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